Show substantial SAVING IS TO RESULT FROM 0 five billion billio n dollars is the amount the united states will save during the next fifteen bears ears through rat fi catlon cation of the naval limitation treaty according to figures compiled by naval experts these figures arc are based upon estimates of savings to be accomplished through the scrap ping of thirty capital ships the abandonment of the policy of build ing two new capital ships a year the economy effected by abandonment of work on new dreadnoughts and battle crul cruis seis eiB and by the cessation of work on naval bases and other shora shore establishments j the cost of maintaining a modern capital ship is approximately 3 a year under the hughes plan the united states la Is to scrap thirty capital ships making a yearly sav ing of 90 abandonment of construction of two new capital ships a year would save 80 to the third heading on the list of economies considered the statistic ans that resulting from the agreement to scrap thirteen new capital ships which when corn com plated would have cost the united states As has already been spent on these ships the saving amounts to approximately which should be compounded over the fifteen year period the last item has to do with the saying saving on shore establishments which Is s estimated at 10 O 0 a year |